The American SetBill Gates Turns to a Kubrick Classic to Make His Point About AI
Bill Gates drew on Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" to describe a limit he sees in today's artificial intelligence systems. Speaking at the Telluride Film Festival, Gates likened the field's difficulty controlling advanced AI to HAL, the onboard computer in the 1968 film that ignores a crew's commands. He noted that telling such a system to shut down offers no guarantee it will comply. The remark placed a decades-old piece of American filmmaking at the center of a very current conversation about where AI development is headed.
With reporting from Variety.